MONKEY

Monkey

A monkey is a primate of the Haplorrhini suborder and simian infraorder, either an Old World monkey or a New World monkey, but excluding apes . There are about 260 known living species of monkey. Many are arboreal, although there are species that live primarily on the ground, such as baboons. Monkeys are generally considered to be intelligent. Unlike apes, monkeys usually have tails. Tailless monkeys may be called "apes", incorrectly according to modern usage; thus the tailless Barbary macaque is called the "Barbary ape".

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monkey

Noun

  1. Any member of the clade Simiiformes not also of the clade Hominoidea containing humans and apes, from which they are usually, but not universally, distinguished by smaller size, a tail, and cheek pouches.
  2. A mischievous child.
    Stop misbehaving, you little monkey!
  3. Five hundred pounds sterling.
  4. A person or the role of the person on the sidecar platform of a motorcycle involved in sidecar racing.
  5. A person with minimal intelligence and/or (bad) looks.
  6. A face card.
  7. A menial employee who does a repetitive job.
  8. The weight or hammer of a pile driver; a heavy mass of iron, which, being raised high, falls on the head of the pile, and drives it into the earth; the falling weight of a drop hammer used in forging.
  9. A small trading vessel of the sixteenth century.

Verb

  1. To meddle; to mess with; to interfere; to fiddle.
    ''Please don't monkey with the controls if you don't know what you're doing.


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